Morning journal and courier., 1887-04-25
News by Telegraph
FROM ALL QUARTERS.
COERCION IN BAD FORM.
Losing Favor Even With
The Tories.
JAKE sHARp's TURN NEXT.
A Man Who Improves On
Fasting.
MANY LIVES LOST BY FIRE.
A Tragedy With Queer
Surroundings.
MANY LIVES LOST BY FIRE.
COERCION LOSING CASTE


COERCION LOSING CASTE
| Even the Tories Growing Disconnected
With the Grimes Act If the Bill
| Passes 1t Will BE Greatly Modified
The Times Still EIounding Parnelf.
| LONDON, April A.-The crimes bill is los
| ing prestige every day, even in the house of
its friends. Ii is becoming subject of dis
| contented criticism in the Tory papers and
| among many members of the Tory party.
Of course it will be passed, but everything
| points to the probability that it will not live
| long enough after its enactment to do much
good or harm. The sober second thought of
| the people at large, stimulated by the vigor-
GUS agitation set in motion by the Liberals,
| has revealed SO much in the bill that is re-
pugnant to English traditions that the sup
port given the measure is perfunctory and it
will be carried through wholly as a matter of
party discipline. There may be something too
Utopian in the idea that a growing spirit of
universal brotherhood has anything to do
with all the modification of sentiment noted.
Yet it cannot be denied by the most practi-
cal observers that the English masses are be-
coming more and. more convinced that what
is being complained of by the Irish people
may ere long be complained of by the Eng
lish people and that in forcing coercion upon
the people across the channel they may be
prescribing an unpleasant medicine for their
own future quafing. On the other hand,
the high Conservative papers and class organs
such as Vanity Fair now condemn the meas
ure as SO severe, so opposed to the spirit of
the common law of England as to be defensi-
BILE only upon full proof of the existence of
monstrous state of crime in Ireland. It is
admitted on all sides that no such proof has
beed adduced. The government there
fore finds the bill opposed by
feeling among the English masses
that the difference between the condition of
the Irish and their own is of degree rath
er than of kind and by a feeling among the
classes that the state of affairs in Ireland is
not bad enough to warrant the upsetting of
common law remedies and traditions or the
creation of dangerous precedents. The nat
ural result of this is that the ministers are
recognizing the necessity of amending the
measure themselves. They see that
otherwise they will stand no chance
to win in the next appeal to
the popular sufrages. The promoters of the
bill will abandon in committee some of its
most offensive clauses. 1QlS Will 1ncluQ6 the
provision for changing the venue of trials
from Ireland to England in certain cases and
the revival of the ''White boy acts" under
which Ireland would be almost in a state of
siege. With these features omitted and the
conspiracy case modified as is now proposed
the bill will be comparatively inoffensive.
The clause authorizing the Viceroy to pro-
claim the National league and similar
organizations will remain unsltered, thus
proving that the bill is essentially not a.
measure to amend criminal procedure in
Ireland, but to suppress political agitation
and discussion in that country. This is ex-
actly what Mr.. Gladstone so forcibly pointed
out in his recent speech against the second
reading. The debate in the committee stage
will be dull and tedious. It is singular
fact that most of the amendments of which
notice has been given are proposed
by the English and not the Irish
members of the opposition. Nothing
could more clearly prove that the coalition
between the Liberals and the Parnellites Is
one of principle and not of political expedi-
ency. The fight in committee will be forced
at every clause and when the bill finally
passes it will be in more satisfactory form
to the Conservatives themselves and less
obnoxious one to the Liberals than when in
troduced. The next result of the parliament
tary and platform debate on the measure
will have been to convert the inevitable pres
emit defeat of the opposition into practical
that this is SO is gaining ground among all
unprecedented observers of affairs.
The most interesting event of the week in
domestic politics is still the Parnell letter
episode. 1t has in fact absorbed public at
tention almost exclusively. Mr.. Parnell is at
Avondale securing needed rest after his ex-
citing experiences of the past few days. Mr..
Gladstone has assured him that he approves
his attitude in regard to the attacks of the
Times and that he regards an absolute denial
of the letter as sufficient. The Times relter-
ates its declaration that it is ready to produce
further documents showing the relations of
the Irish parliamentary leaders with the
Irish American dynamite section: The peo-
pie assert that their information is based on
facts collected by staff of American and
English detectives who have long been en-
gagged in tracing the alleged connections of
the Irish chiefs with the outlawed ele-
ment of their constituency. The bold
assertions of influential jour
nal are, of course, rather for
midable things to encounter as rule, but
in the present case there can be no doubt
that the general belief is in the truth of what
Parnel says as against what the Times be-
lieves. The popular feeling is largely turn
ing into one of marked curiosity as to how the
Times came to be imposed upon and who Is
back of the people who are engineering the
Times attacks. 1t is hoped that one result
of the affair will be to unearth
this attack The originator of the
letter is probably some one who has
furnished the Times with the material for its
partly true and partly false statements con-
tanned in the misleading articles on Spar
nellism and Crime" 1t is perhaps of inter
est to state that Piggott, the ex-Nationalist,
who has been ostracized from the Parnellites'
ranks, is known to be an informer.
A Landlord Yields TO His Tenants.
DUBLIN. April 24.-Agent O'Grady of the
Herbertstown estates, whose tenants refused
to pay rent until the bankrupt farmer
Moroney, who was imprisoned by Judge
Boyd for contempt of court, should be liberia
ted, his consented to treat with his tenantry
once more before resorting to extreme
measures. Previous to the demand of the
tenants that Moroney should be released
they had demanded certain Attachments of
rent which had been refused and eyictions
had been enforced. Mr.. O'Grady now in
forms the tenants that he is willing to con-
cede the abatement demanded and to forego
all costs except those connected with the
bankrupt proceedings.
Circulars have been issued in profusion
throughout County Glare demanding of per-
sons renting farms of more than one hun
bred acres that they provide buildings there
on for evicted tenants in order that the
necessity of evictees emigrating may be OBJ
waited The circular intimates that failure
to comply with the demands will bring upon
the offenders the wrath of the issuers. Back
renting house owners in town have been
warned to reduce their rents or beware of
sharpshooters.
A HORRIBLE SUICIDE.